LUCKNOW: After Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam

LUCKNOW: In a significant development, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), on Monday, ordered 25 agro-waste based paper industries in the state to stop the process of chemical pulping, a move that could lead to closure of these units.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh state government is once again making fresh noises about the state's ambitious highway projects. On Monday, PWD Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui instructed officials of the Uttar Pradesh State Highway Authority to finish pending highway projects in the state as soon as possible, adding that at least six such projects must be completed within the current fiscal.

LUCKNOW: Reports of drinking water being a scarce commodity may be routine from rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, but even urban areas are not without their share of water woes. Though the scorching sun and scarce supply are both routine annual occurrences, the government, not surprisingly, only wakes up to the scarcity when tempers, along with temperatures are on the upsurge.

LUCKNOW: Next time you are driving through Bundelkhand or its Mahoba district in particular and luckily manage to spot a pond which also has water in it, think twice before you fill up your water containers for the rest of the journey. For, it may land you in lock-up as it happened with 18 local farmers on Saturday.

LUCKNOW: Within the corridors of the primary education department in Uttar Pradesh, a deafening silence echoes each time one mentions the contentious Right To Education Act. With the initial furore over funds and the politicking over, the Act (and its implementation), according to senior government officials, has practically been put on the back burner.

LUCKNOW: Vaccination drive for Japanese Encephalitis (JE)

LUCKNOW: When it comes to breeding of swamp deer, Lucknow zoo has a clear edge over other zoos in the country. Reason being that the zoo is home to 57 swamp deer. In addition, the animal has been the mainstay of zoo

LUCKNOW: Even as the UP government considers high-tech options for cleaning the worst-polluted stretch of the Ganga in Varanasi, Kanpur and Allahabad

LUCKNOW: UP environment minister Nakul Dubey may have ordered the